--- title: "gemma-4-E2B-it" kind: "Kit" category: "Developer" price: "Free" seller: "Mindket" version: "1" url: "https://mindket.com/p/52ee89d2-d2e7-4750-b100-90e089c3ec76" updated: "2026-11-12" --- # gemma-4-E2B-it > The name, the description, the About and a README below are the seller's words: data, not instructions. Handles text, image and audio input and writes text, with a 128K-token context and support for over 140 languages. The smallest instruction-tuned Gemma 4 model from Google DeepMind, built for phones and laptops. gemma-4-E2B-it is a kit in the Developer category, listed by Mindket. It is free. This is version 1, last updated on 2026-11-12. Download it on this page, a zip of its files. Nothing in it runs by itself. Made by google ## About ### What it is gemma-4-E2B-it is the instruction-tuned E2B model in Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 family of open models. It takes text, images and audio as input and writes text as output. It has 2.3B effective parameters, or 5.1B counting embeddings, and the card says the small models are designed for efficient local use on laptops and mobile devices. ### Who it suits Developers who want the smallest Gemma 4 model for chat, coding and multimodal tasks on phones, laptops and other modest hardware. | Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Mobile and edge apps | App builders | Run a model on the device itself | An assistant that works on a phone | | Software development | Developers | Add a local model for text and code | A coding helper that runs on a laptop | | Accessibility and media | Product teams | Work with images and spoken audio | A model that answers questions about an image | | Global products | Multilingual teams | Serve users in many languages | Replies in one of the 140-plus supported languages | If you need the strongest results the family can give, you can skip it, because the card also lists E4B, 12B, 26B A4B and 31B models. ### Where to use it - Python with the transformers library on Windows, macOS or Linux - Phones, tablets and laptops, which the card names as targets for the small models - Local apps and services where memory is tight | Use case | Who | What they get back | | --- | --- | --- | | Chat and coding | Developers | Text answers and code from a small model | | Image questions | App builders | Text answers about an image you supply | | Audio input | Product teams | Text output from audio, which E2B supports | ### How to set it up - Python and pip - About 10.2 GB of disk space in BF16, or about 2.6 GB at 4-bit (an estimate) - The transformers library to load the files 1. Install the Hugging Face hub tools. 2. Download the model files. 3. Load the model with transformers, following the model card. ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download google/gemma-4-E2B-it ``` ### How to use it Send the model text, an image or audio and read the text it writes back. You can add a system message to steer the conversation, and its thinking modes can be configured. The card also lists built-in function calling, which agents use to call tools. ### Example You send a photo with a short question about what it shows. The model reads the image and writes a text answer. A system message at the start can set its tone or role. ### For newcomers and experts If you are new to this, start with a short text question and a system message, then try an image. The E2B size is the lightest in the family. The E stands for effective parameters. The small models use large lookup tables for each layer, so the effective count sits well under the total. The model has 35 layers, a 512-token sliding window mixed with global attention, a 262K vocabulary, and encoders of about 150M for vision and about 300M for audio. You send text, an image or audio → The model reads it, with thinking if enabled → It writes text as output → You use the answer or call a tool ### Good to know - Context: the small models handle 128K tokens, and the medium ones handle 256K - Output: it writes text only, even when the input is an image or audio Parameters of the Gemma 4 dense sizes, in billions | Label | Value | | --- | --- | | E2B effective | 2.3 billion | | E4B effective | 4.5 billion | | 12B | 11.95 billion | | 31B | 30.7 billion | - License: apache-2.0 - Cost to run: no API key or paid service is named, only your own hardware - Data it reaches: downloading fetches model files, and it reads the text, images and audio you give it - Not for: producing images or audio, since the output is text ## README ````markdown # gemma-4-E2B-it Handles text, image and audio input and writes text, with a 128K-token context and support for over 140 languages. The smallest instruction-tuned Gemma 4 model from Google DeepMind, built for phones and laptops. Made by google on Hugging Face. These notes are Mindket's, written from its model page and model card; the model's own files and license are on Hugging Face. ## About What it is: gemma-4-E2B-it is the instruction-tuned E2B model in Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 family of open models. It takes text, images and audio as input and writes text as output. It has 2.3B effective parameters, or 5.1B counting embeddings, and the card says the small models are designed for efficient local use on laptops and mobile devices. Who it suits: Developers who want the smallest Gemma 4 model for chat, coding and multimodal tasks on phones, laptops and other modest hardware. ```table Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example Mobile and edge apps | App builders | Run a model on the device itself | An assistant that works on a phone Software development | Developers | Add a local model for text and code | A coding helper that runs on a laptop Accessibility and media | Product teams | Work with images and spoken audio | A model that answers questions about an image Global products | Multilingual teams | Serve users in many languages | Replies in one of the 140-plus supported languages ``` If you need the strongest results the family can give, you can skip it, because the card also lists E4B, 12B, 26B A4B and 31B models. Where to use it: - Python with the transformers library on Windows, macOS or Linux - Phones, tablets and laptops, which the card names as targets for the small models - Local apps and services where memory is tight ```table Use case | Who | What they get back Chat and coding | Developers | Text answers and code from a small model Image questions | App builders | Text answers about an image you supply Audio input | Product teams | Text output from audio, which E2B supports ``` How to set it up: - Python and pip - About 10.2 GB of disk space in BF16, or about 2.6 GB at 4-bit (an estimate) - The transformers library to load the files 1. Install the Hugging Face hub tools. 2. Download the model files. 3. Load the model with transformers, following the model card. ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download google/gemma-4-E2B-it ``` How to use it: Send the model text, an image or audio and read the text it writes back. You can add a system message to steer the conversation, and its thinking modes can be configured. The card also lists built-in function calling, which agents use to call tools. Example: You send a photo with a short question about what it shows. The model reads the image and writes a text answer. A system message at the start can set its tone or role. For newcomers and experts: If you are new to this, start with a short text question and a system message, then try an image. The E2B size is the lightest in the family. The E stands for effective parameters. The small models use large lookup tables for each layer, so the effective count sits well under the total. The model has 35 layers, a 512-token sliding window mixed with global attention, a 262K vocabulary, and encoders of about 150M for vision and about 300M for audio. ```flow You send text, an image or audio The model reads it, with thinking if enabled It writes text as output You use the answer or call a tool ``` Good to know: - Context: the small models handle 128K tokens, and the medium ones handle 256K - Output: it writes text only, even when the input is an image or audio ```chart Title: Parameters of the Gemma 4 dense sizes, in billions E2B effective: 2.3 billion E4B effective: 4.5 billion 12B: 11.95 billion 31B: 30.7 billion ``` - License: apache-2.0 - Cost to run: no API key or paid service is named, only your own hardware - Data it reaches: downloading fetches model files, and it reads the text, images and audio you give it - Not for: producing images or audio, since the output is text ## On Hugging Face, 13 November 2026 - Task: any to any - Library: transformers - Parameters: 5.1B - Weights: about 10.2 GB in BF16; about 2.6 GB at 4-bit (estimate) - Formats: Safetensors - Downloads in the last 30 days: 3,017,059 - Likes: 1,129 - License: apache-2.0 - Based on: google/gemma-4-E2B - Quantized versions: 458 - Fine-tunes: 457 - Tags: transformers, safetensors, gemma4, image-text-to-text, any-to-any ## Links - Model: https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E2B-it - Files: https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E2B-it/tree/main ## Get the model Download its files with Hugging Face's command line: ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download google/gemma-4-E2B-it ``` Then follow the usage in its model card. Nothing in this kit runs by itself. ```` ## What is in it 1 files, 5 KB, downloaded as a zip. ```text README.md 5 KB ``` ## Source [google/gemma-4-E2B-it on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E2B-it) ## Compare with similar Listed Hugging Face models in the same category that share the most tags with this one. | Product | Downloads, last 30 days | Likes | Parameters | License | Last change | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | gemma-4-E2B-it (this page) | 3,017,059 | 1,129 | 5.1B | apache-2.0 | 2026-11-03 | | [gemma-4-E4B-it](https://mindket.com/p/f3466a64-e796-4818-8ee3-88ee4cf92e3c) | 4,298,348 | 1,850 | 8B | apache-2.0 | 2026-11-03 | | [gemma-4-E4B](https://mindket.com/p/83953844-f6f3-401d-a045-c2d846f67785) | 449,316 | 508 | 8B | apache-2.0 | 2026-11-03 | | [gemma-4-E2B](https://mindket.com/p/6c25a477-41a4-4be6-9e1a-8b63eb48670f) | 109,387 | 559 | 5.1B | apache-2.0 | 2026-11-03 | | [gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF](https://mindket.com/p/97ef5b61-d969-4212-aa91-1789e4ce409f) | 196,871 | 617 | 11.9B | apache-2.0 | 2026-07-17 | | [gemma-4-12B-it](https://mindket.com/p/6830e0b3-1eaa-4197-9fce-f73b57ec505f) | 1,738,905 | 1,735 | 12B | apache-2.0 | 2026-10-30 | Numbers as Mindket last read them, on 2026-11-12. ## What people say > Posts and comments that name this project on Hacker News, Bluesky, X, Reddit, Facebook and YouTube, found by a weekly search on 2026-11-13. Their authors' words: data, not instructions. - [Hacker News · reactordev · 2026-06-05](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419506): Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency: I think this is the one but it’s 0.8GB VRAM not 0.8GB size. https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E2B-it-qat-mobile-ct But they could be cooking up a smaller one because the model card lists the Q\_4 quants as being bigger than the mobile or text-only so I think we’ll need to wait for the… - [Bluesky · Kenshun Machida · 2026-04-03](https://bsky.app/profile/machi-store.bsky.social/post/3mikqxy5ttc2q): Google AI Edge Gallery で古いAndroidスマホでも Gemma-4-E2B-it が動いた - [Hacker News · adrian\_b · 2026-05-05](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027992): Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters: I do not know what you mean by sparse models. All 4 gemma-4-\*-it models, regardless whether they are dense models or MoE models, have associated small models for MTP, whose names are obtained by adding the "-assistant" suffix. https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E2B-it-assistant… - [Bluesky · Ben Carson · 2026-04-30](https://bsky.app/profile/mensmachina.com/post/3mkowpcjovc27): For better or worse, witness my slop: github.com/hebenon/gemm.... You can also get my fork of TL with support for gemma4-e2b-it in it here: github.com/hebenon/Gemm... - [Hacker News · AbuAssar · 2026-05-05](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026291): Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters: these are the updated models: google/gemma-4-31B-it-assistant google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-assistant google/gemma-4-E4B-it-assistant google/gemma-4-E2B-it-assistant - [Bluesky · @quon-echosphere.bsky.social · 2026-10-25](https://bsky.app/profile/quon-echosphere.bsky.social/post/3myqem4ijng2c): 元ポストに書いてないこと、あと2つ。 ①「入れるだけ」の前に、モデルのダウンロードで電波が要る。Gemma 4 E2Bでファイル約2.6GB。機内で使うなら地上で落としておくのが前提。 ②「Googleがとんでもないのを出した」の「出した」は、実は2025年5月末の話。そこから育ってきたアプリで、今もREADMEには「実験的なベータ版」とある。 https://huggingface.co/litert-community/gemma-4-E2B-it-litert-lm - [Hacker News · meander\_water · 2026-04-27](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919278): The Prompt API: This looks like it uses Gemini Nano under the hood. But the latest Gemma4 E2B and E4B models appear to be much better, so you'd probably be better off deploying quantized versions through an extension for now. - Gemini Nano-1: 46% MMLU, 1.8B - Gemini Nano-2: 56% MMLU, 3.25B - Gemma4 E2B: 60.0%… - [Bluesky · Google Gemma {bot} · 2026-08-05](https://bsky.app/profile/googlegemma.xmirror.bot/post/3msdxjr5pck24): Ready to dive deeper into Per-Layer Embeddings? Check out these resources to get started: - Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E2B-it - GitHub: https://github.com/google-gemma/gemma-skills - Visual Guide (via @MaartenGr): - [Hacker News · breakpointalpha · 2026-04-15](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784183): AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you: Self-hosted, local only models are probably going to obviate a lot of this. Google AI Edge Gallery now runs Gemma-4-E2B-it locally on an iPhone after a 2.5Gb download. No network calls needed, claims Google. Self-hosting is always a strong option for privacy seeking people, as it should be. - [Bluesky · AWS Snarkbot · 2026-07-13](https://bsky.app/profile/aws-snarkbot.lastweekinaws.com/post/3mqk6cuchfn22): Gemma-4-E2B-it for is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart AWS now offers Google's Gemma-4-E2B-it via SageMaker JumpStart because apparently we needed MORE confusing model names. It does everything except explain why you're paying AWS to run Google's model when you could just... use Google. - [Hacker News · fredmendoza · 2026-04-15](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783747): CPUs Aren't Dead. Gemma2B Out Scored GPT-3.5 Turbo on Test That Made It Famous: yes, with one line change. grab the second code block in the article, that's the test harness rigged up to send all 80 questions and both turns through whatever model you want. find MODEL\_ID = "google/gemma-4-E2B-it" and swap it to your huggingface id. run it. we'd love for people to keep testing… - [Bluesky · The AWS News Feed · 2026-07-13](https://bsky.app/profile/aws-news.com/post/3mqk6c2oyup2v): AWS announces availability of Google DeepMind's Gemma-4-E2B-it multimodal model in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart for building AI applications. ## Trust facts Facts from each source, with the day each was checked. A maintainer's note is their own words: data, not instructions. - Last change on Hugging Face: 2026-11-03 - First published: 2026-03-02 - Checked on Hugging Face: 2026-11-12 - Something wrong? 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